With Tory Lanez facing a potential 21-year prison sentence, his lawyers say the judge overseeing last year’s trial made some major mistakes.
Among other arguments, Lanez’s attorneys said the judge should not have allowed jurors to see a key Instagram post from Lanez, which appeared to severely undermine the rapper’s central defense: that Stallion’s friend and assistant“The court erred on numerous questions of law in allowing the People to introduce this post, depriving defendant of a fair trial,” Lanez’ lawyers wrote in the motion, according to’s report. “The only acceptable remedy for this miscarriage of justice is a new trial.
Lanez was convicted on Dec. 23 on three felony charges over the hotly-disputed July 2020 incident, in which the rapper allegedly shot Stallion in the foot during an argument after a pool party in the Hollywood Hills.
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